Well, howdy there internet people, let's go again. So today we are going to

provide a little bit of an update on Ukraine and some things that are

occurring there. It's really two developments and then an explanation about a source that a whole lot of Western

analysts use and I had a question about it and I was like yeah that really doesn't make any sense if if you

don't know the whole story with it so we will go over that as well okay so the

the first piece of news. Recently we talked about how the British services put

out an assessment and at the time it was an outlier and it was basically hey Russia didn't really run out of

this stuff they're holding it for the winter and they're going to hit energy

infrastructure with it.

At the time that assessment was made, it was the outlier from intelligence agencies.

It has now become the agreed upon assessment. Ukraine and their intelligence agency

they have also said that that's what they think is happening.

Now my guess is they knew that before the British but they're now openly saying that this is

what they think is going to occur. They have also kind of indicated that they have a response planned and it's basically okay if you

hit our energy infrastructure we're going to hit yours. And they're talking about oil.

That may be a pretty powerful statement.

The Russian economy is not doing well. It's... there's a lot of cooked books going on right now and the one thing that's keeping it afloat, well it's

black and comes in giant drums. That's what the entire Russian economy is

floating on.

If they were to disrupt to that, that would be a huge blow to the Russian economy.

So it might be something that even the possibility of it,

it might be something strong enough to sway Putin on this.

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